t one of its recent concerts, gave a
piece of original Russian music, called the "Song of the Cherubim," by
BORTNIANSKY, a composer who has written a good deal for the Imperial
Chapel at St. Petersburg. It is a chorus without accompaniment, and is
spoken of by the critics as most original and striking, in fact unlike
any thing familiar to Western or Southern ears. We can easily conceive
of a peculiar style of music being produced from the bosom of the Greek
Church. Those who have heard the melancholy and touching, half-barbaric
music usually employed in its ritual, will not be surprised that out of
it there should arise a quite new order of compositions.

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THE GOeETHE'S INHERITANCE--an extensive collection of models, engravings,
sculptures, carvings, gems, minerals, fossils, original drawings, &c.,
collected by the great poet,--is to be sold at Weimar, for the benefit
of his heirs, two grandsons. A _catalogue raisonnee_ has been published
by Fromman, at Jena, and it makes a very interesting book. It is
suggested in the _Art-Journal_ for December, that if the collection were
distributed in separate lots, in America, or England, or Germany, the
heirs would realize three or four times as much as they will by a single
sale for the whole, which they have determined upon. Letters upon the
subject may be addressed to Baron Walther Von Goethe, at Vienna.

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The author of the following remarks on ART-UNIONS, is an eminent artist,
whose name has never been associated with any discussions of these
Institutions, or with any controversies connected with them, and he has
not, we believe, since the foundation of the first Art-Union in America,
had any production of his own in the market.

ART-UNIONS: THEIR TRUE CHARACTER CONSIDERED.

ART-UNIONS, and their management, have recently attracted much attention
in this country, if we may judge from the numerous articles on the
subject which have appeared in some of the most reputable journals. It
is now about ten years since the first Art-Union was established in this
city. Others, in various sections, have followed, and all, whatever
their peculiarities, have been more or less successful in their chief
objects.

Now it is reasonable to suppose, that the result of these ten years'
efforts to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts among us, should
furnish some evidence of their capabilities for the ac